[newbie] connecting to remote hosts and adding packages

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Hello,
I am trying ansible because it seems it is very simple in usage.
I have the following use case:

  • several ubuntu an debian servers (all permit login to non root users)
  • user and password is different in each server
  • I need to install a deb sources.list parametrized deb http://xxxxxxx/yyyyyy/ $(lsb_release -cs) main

It seems to me that this use case is very simple but I am confused:

  1. I cannot find an easy way to manage the passwordless sudo use case
  2. I cannot find how to parametrize sources.list

Thanks in advance for any suggestion!
Mario

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Dear Mario,

Hello,
I am trying ansible because it seems it is very simple in usage.

True. At least if you compare against the right thing...

I have the following use case:
- several ubuntu an debian servers (all permit login to non root users)
- user and password is different in each server
- I need to install a deb sources.list parametrized deb
http://xxxxxxx/yyyyyy/ $(lsb_release -cs) main

It seems to me that this use case is very simple but I am confused:

1) I cannot find an easy way to manage the passwordless sudo use case

I would do the following:

Set up ansible vault so you can store variables in encrypted files (I
have a file that holds my vault-password, but you can also get
prompted for it if you prefer)

Put user and password for the host foobar in
host_vars/foobar/encrypted.yml via "ansible-vault create ...":

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